Mechanical cashier.



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Patented Au 13, 1912.

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T. L. STROUDL MECHANICAL CASHIER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1909.

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MECHANICAL CASHIER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1909.

Patented Aug. 13,1912.

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T. L. STROUD.

MECHANICAL CASHIER.

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Be it known that I, THOMAS L. Srnoun, citizen of the United States, residing at i Washington, in the District of Columbia,

cifically claimed.

have invented certain new and useful improvements in Mechanical Cashiers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cash registers and change making machines known as mechanical cashiers.

1 Theprincipal object of my invention is to provide a machine that will register and indicate the amount of purchase and automatically compute, indicate and make the right amount of change all at a. single operation. Another object is to provide a coin separatorthat will separate and carry the different coins to their respective receptacles.

Further objects are to generally improve the construction and operation of the various parts of such a machine.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction, ar rangement and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and afterward spe- In the accompanying drawings in which I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a front view of the machine, with part of case broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical section viewed from the left side and shows almost entire machine. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 shows the segment of disk which controls the change making mechanism; also showing operat ing handle and pointer in dotted lines. Fig. 5 shows'the coin separator with the hopper shown in dotted lines. Fig. 6 is an end view of coin Separator. Fig. 7 isa section of a coin tube, and the coin separator adjacent thereto, the nickel tube being illustrated in this instance. Fig. '8 is a view of the hopper of the coin separator. Fig. 9 is a sectional v'ew of the registering and tape .carrying echanism, carried by the pointer.

. This machine comprises a rectangular case, the front of which is indicated by 1, the back by 2 and the sides'by 3 and 4.

Centrally located in the front of the machine is a rotar and longitudinally movable shaft 5, wit an operating handle 6 on its forward end. Said shaft carries a segment of disk 7, and a pointer 8, bothrilgidly fixed onthe shaft. The pointer 8 carries mechanism for controlling a tape. Mounted Specification of Letters latent.

MECHANZCAL CASHIER.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

Application filed September 24, 1909. Serial No. 519,477.

on pointer 8 is an octagon roller 10, which serves as a platen, over which passes a tape 11. The tape is controlled by suitable guide and feed rollers 12, 13 and 14. The guide roller 14 carries upon its shaft a ratchet 15 operated by a pawl 16, said pawl being operated by a spring pressed plunger 17. \Vhen shaft 5 moves longitudinally it brings the tape in cont-act with ype 0 arranged on the plate 18, by which means a register of sales is made. The plunger 17 is depressed by striking plate 18, and operates gearing 19, moving the tape one step forward, as pointer 8 with the shaft comes back to its normal. position. The tape passes from a reel 50 upward and after receiving the rec- 0rd passes down in through an elongated opening in the shaft 5,'which minimizes the movement of the tape at that point, due to the longitudinal. movement of the shaft. Pointer 8 also carries one or more guide members 20, which engage any of a' series of openings 21 in the plate 18 for the pin-- are three series of figures, and a fourth series,'tl1e type, before mentioned. These four series of figures are arranged in concentric arcs or circles around shaft 5, and are indicated by a, b, c and 6, respectively. Series (1 indicates the amount of change, or the difierence between series b and Series 6 indicates the amount tendered. Series 0 indicates the amount of purchase. The

numbers on series 0, where there are no numbers in the same radial lines in series a and 6, indicate both the amount tendered and the amount of purchase, no change be ing required. When no account of odd pennies is taken the numbers 1, 2, 3 and on scale may be used to indicate and register dollars, in place of cents, and the dollar markif placed before or after any number i may make that number read dollars in place of cents; Not counting the numbers 1 2, 3' and 4, and the dollar mark, the series 5 aud o represent a scale consecutively from le'fgto rightl veryf ossihl perm nent ehangeto he made from 5 five 1 ',to. one

' shown, and 10 areflfive' longitudinally m vable coili rplnn-f Y get-s, indicated by 43, with: reduced ends 4e, and having, fetu'rn sptings45, said phin- -grs being independentof' ea'chother and.

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t s hi ohgontagu he same figures as; series. 0,

i js tbet pe hiFi ipp e l nown,,poipc1n ytowmi indicates 1 0 gents; amount --.oi-, change.

Pushi h ha sit the amount tendered,

gs will be hereinaft er;}explained- On the faee of t11'e} 1nechine'1sen are 1?. which per- Pitt sthe polnter ,8 'norina1ly to stand just- "under the settleo f\ figures.- I

Raised 1n :1 plane radially from shaft 5, the concentric cii'cles being 111 will'. i el nziin ,"inop rative,

ocour' 111 its perforated litre 'arnztn'ge'd with respect tothe different 1 x em- 01mg dimes, and i, j. and hcontrol the niekels', 'quorte'rs andhalfv do11a1's,'- respect 99in plungers, as'iollow'sf Circlesig and IL 1 enough botto rn leftfon one, side, to 1110151 one:

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'L l ledges a 1efcult" ;ay\fay, to pernnit the, different;-

.glolla t w ns and half dollars,"respectively,; Asshown in I 40,- 50' and 10, t Olcents, is the ,amount made possible,

5 'in with thespointer at eents change" will be given,

-1nu st' pass in a straight g 'tom' of. tubes to eject-the; coins.)

'- Suitable; 'means for 'nki; be employed;-

tblut, the, jp'lungers.

' .surfzipe. The Concentricv.ci1."'e1esof disk"? Patent, is:- v

s position to move the tofl-g ye the amount of; I I d "record stnp,

'ine'ans 'oarri d 6', consists p a A e 7 4 on one slde, and a sen s of ,ohstrn ct1ons along ltS length.-

-; through i s'zi ine' opening but fell. scribed, a'fixedsealelheying emindicated by 31; theothe'r coins slide with: I one edge on the bottonnfandthe other-edge ledges, Which-are indl- F gs. 6, a n'lf 8, by evatingone edge of theg .o'oin sa triilngular shaped"fobstruotioni' iO is which'aots as a',stop-for egoh coin and without interfering withthe prog-"l "ress o'E'the1c'o1n :lhove it and thus msures the filling ofJthe' coinsinto their ireoePflihClesi Fig. ted i r I .sep'at'otor directly attaehed tubes," and ro er. 7 shows'the nickel 1n ot-' striking its obstruction. The coin to-the coin- Fig. 7," the via "tubes. are provided within'c ined bottoms.

near the to ,-"by. ideout; The inc ined bottoms of coin tuhesaleofoourse at right toms of the eoin tubes ieindiceted' by ,-Q

and as] shown, enough p s fju i ab t ed nshes-ontthbottom coin.

' g the tape 1 may vmay An ji-I'ik or Carbon; strlp be placed on j the' 'typ'. 0:1; [may beiperned by of the bottom and= 1 "side'of each tube is ontaway xtt fl to allom'" the-coins to fall; when-fpushed ,bejond"'t he v c entenf; The 'point. of each coin plun'ge'r the pointer; or the- "tape InfBy fb'e"; of such q l y th it "w l 16931,?

sure shill-st ok none 0 Whichare shown as they form no part {of thisinvention.

'- Haying thusdescribedlmy invention,what

, 65- .Iela'im' as new and destrefto secure by Let-[ and, means earned omter Lfor, taklng indicate various amounts theie'on,"

amounts oh the scale, fmens bcalffiefli pointetim supporting a'. recorc l sh i' f the-type corresponding" to thei-amoun 1 ointer; gth'e;

3.,In a 'j'mach'jne "oil (in Characters indid'tih'g "jforj m 'ti on the amount of purchase,

a-rotl' ry 11 81 189 longitudinally movable shaft, and a pointer carried by the shaft adapted to indicate any one of said characters, and recording means carried by the pointer.

4. In a machine of the character dcscribed, a fixed scale having arranged thereon in radial lines, characters indicatin for each transaction the amount of purchase, 'the amount tendered and the amount of change required, a' rotary and longitudinally movable shaft, a pointer rigidly secured to transaction the amount of purchase, the

amount tendered and the amount of change required, a fixed plate in the rear of the scale, a rotary and longitudinally movable shaft, a pointer rigidly secured to the shaft adapted to indicate'any one of said radial lines, and recording 'means carried by the point'erand. comprising a plunger adapted to strike the fixed plate when the shaft is.

moved longitudinallyand' to operate the recording means.

6. Ina machine of the character described, a fixed scale having arranged thereon in radial lines, characters indicating for each transaction the amount 'of purchase, the amount tendered and the amount of change required, -a fixed plate in the rearofthe scale carrying type, a rotary and longitudinally movable shaft, a pointer rigidly secured upon the shaft and a recording strip carried by the pointer in position to strike the type-when the shaft is moved longitudinally.

7. In a machine of the character described, a fixed scale having arranged thereon in radiallines, characters indicating for each transaction the amount of purchase, the amount tendered and the amount of change required, a fixed plate in the rear of the 'scale carrying type, a rotary and longitudinally movable shaft, a pointer rigidly cured upon the shaft, a recording strip carried by the pointer in position to strike the type when theshaft is moved longitudinally, and feeding means for the strip carried by the pointercomprising an operating plunger adapted to be actuated by the longitudinal movementof't-he shaft.

8.,In a machine of the character described, a fixed scale having arranged thereon in radial lines,'characters indicating for each transaction the amount of purchase, the

amount tendered and the amount of change,

required, a fixed plate in the rear of the s ale carrying t ne, a rotary and longitudinally movable 'shaft, a. pointisr-rigidl; se-

cured upon the shaft, 2. recording strip car-f ried by the pointer in position to strike the type when the shaft is moved longitudinally,

and feeding means for the-strip carried by the pointer comprising a platen roller, gearin'g', a ratchet Wheel, and .a'spring plunger adapted to strike the fixed plate-("when the shaft is moved longitudinally.

9. In a machine of the character described, a fixed scale having arranged thereon in radial lines, characters indicating for each t-ransaction the amount of purchase, the

amount tendered and the amount of change. required, a fixed plate in the rear of the scale carryin type, a rot-ary'and lon itudinally movab e shaft, a pointer rigidly secured upon the shaft, a recording strip carried by the pointer in position to strike the type when the shaftis moved longitudinally, and means for guiding the pointer during the printing movement.

10. In a machine of the character described, 21 fixed scale having arranged thereon in radial lines, characters indicating for each transaction the amount of purchase, the amount tendered, and the amountof change required, a fixed plate in the rear of the scale provided with a concentric row of type and a concentric series of slots, a rotary and longitudinally movable shaft, a pointer rigidly secured upon the shaft and adapted to indicate any one of said radial rows of characters, a platen roller carried by the pointer, a recording strip andfceding means for the strip. carried by the pointer, and a pin projecting from the" pointer adapted to engage in any one of said series ofconcen tric slots to hold the pointer against rotary movement while permitting its movement with the longitudinal movement of the shaft.

11. In a machine of the character de-.

scribed, .a fixed scale having numbers arranged thereon, a movable pointer to indicate various amounts on said scale, stationary type arranged in correspondence to the munbers on the scale, means carried by the pointer for taking impressions of the type corresponding to the amount indicated by the pointer, and means for locking the pointer in adjusted position during the impression taking movement of the point-er, said means comprising a pin carried by the pointer and a series of holes arranged in alinement with the numbers on the scale.

in presence of two witnesses.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature Witnesses: S BRASHEARS, A. Coornm 

